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WITNESSES 11v VENTOR Atforney N. PETERS. muun n hr. wminmuc UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDWARD BARNABD, OF ROME, NEW YORK.

HALTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 297,963, dated May 6, 1884.

Application filed January 21, 1884. (No model.)

citizen of the United States, residing at Rome,

in the county of Oneida and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Halter, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a view in perspective of a halter embodying the improvements of my invention. Fig. 2 is a view of the buckle that holds the rope that forms the chin-piece and lead-rope combined, and Fig. 3is a view of the rope and buckle detached.

This invention hasrelation to halters; and it consists in the novel construc'tion'and arrangement of parts, as will be hereinafter fully described, and particularly pointed out in the claim appended.

Referring by letter to the accompanying drawings, a designates the nose-piece, which is of webbing, and is formed in one piece with the head-stall b. I

c designates the throat-latch, secured to the head'stall in any suitable manner, and provided with the-usual buckle, d.

e e are loop-castings on the webbing, to form the angles in the webbing that converts the singlepiece of webbing into a nose-piece and a headstall, when the chin-piece f has been formed from the lead-rope g and the halter is in place on the animals head. One end of the lead-rope g is secured to the loop-casting e or e, as may be desired. When secured to the casting e,its free end is first passed through the buckle i on one side of the hinged tongue k, so that when drawn in the buckle it will carry the tongue upward or outward as it passes. It is then passed through the loop 6 on thewebbing, and again back through the buckle i on the opposite side of the tongue k, drawing. it in place against its frame and binding the rope therein, and prevent-ing it from accidentally slipping after it has been adjusted to the proper size. By this construction I am enabled to combine the chin-piece and lead-rope in one piece. I am also enaf bledto adjust the halter and chin-piece to horses of difierent sizes quickly and easily.

This halter is only a two-buckle and tworing halter, and, the material being of webbing and rope, may be cheaply constructed.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

p In a halter, the combined chin-pieoe and lead-rope formed of a single piece of rope secured by a loop connection atone end to one of the loop-castings on the headstall, passed thence through a tongue-buckle and through a second loop-casting 'at the opposite side of the headstall, and back through the tonguebuckle which secures it, to form the chin-piece, the free end forming the lead-rope, substantially as specified.

In testimony that I claim. the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

EDWARD BARNARD.

' Witnesses:

FRED BARNARD, DANIEL G. WYMAN. 

